42 Cameron, Hymenoptcra Orientalia. 



indistinct towards the middle and apex ; the spines are 

 large, broad, rounded at the top. The propleuriu stoutly 

 striated behind ; the mesopleun^i above near the middle 

 longitudinally striated ; beneath this is a small belt of 

 large, deep punctures, below this again are some stout, 

 longitudinal furrows ; the keel over the mesosternum is 

 deep and clearly defined at the base, shallow and broader 

 at the apex, where it is rough and bordered by some 

 stout keels. The mesosternum is largely oblique at 

 the base ; the furrow there is wide and crenulated ; the 

 sternum is smooth and shining ; the keel on the apical 

 part is narrower than on the basal. Legs rufo-fulvous ; 

 the four anterior coxje and trochanters yellow ; the hinder 

 coxae black, yellow at the base above and at the apex below; 

 the hinder tarsi white ; the basal half of the metatarsus 

 and the terminal joint, black. Areolet pentangular, narrow, 

 the lower part twice the length of the upper ; the lower 

 part angled, receiving the recurrent nervureshortl}' beyond 

 the middle ; the latter is broadly curved and is bullated at 

 the top and bottom ; the transverse basal nervure is in- 

 terstitial. Abdomen black ; the apices of the segments 

 banded with yellow ; the petiole smooth ; the sides above 

 keeled, the keel curving up above the spiracles ; the gastro- 

 coeli are shallow, indistinct. 



Odontocryptus SULCATUS, sp. nov. 



Long. 8 mm. c^. 



Very similar in coloration to O. fi/icomis, but may 

 be easily separated from it by the form of thesupramedian 

 area which is longer than broad, while in O. filicornis it is 

 broader than long. 



Antennae black to the twelfth joint, the remaining joints 

 being broken off; the scape yellow beneath ; theflagellum 

 thickly covered with short, stiff, black pubescence. Head 



